Features

All fishing trips to Patagonia revolve around luxurious lodges, meat-heavy three-hour dinners, and bottomless bottles of Malbec served just below room temp. Or not.

Story and photos by Dave Karczynski

Golden Bones

A journey from Canada to Illinois reveals that the love of flyfishing for carp stretches far and wide, as does a deep passion and respect for the species itself.

Story and photos by Ryan Sparks

Unofficial Absaroka

One man had a dream: Carve out a new American state by stealing the fishiest parts of a few others. It would've been a great place to call home.

By Geoff Mueller Photos by Hank Welles

Departments

Page Six Chix

Something salty, something fresh.

Put-in

Why are so many people afraid of science? Our fisheries biologists are the fish's best friend. Let's listen to them.

Rises

On Michigan State fans, sappy moments, and Peter Heller.

Scuddlebutt

The story behind those bird-eating GTs; Bentley's SUV vs. The Drake's; looking back and looking forward at Oregon's Steamboat Inn; modern love and Instagram; Pebble Mine, again; Clyde hits the Texas coast; pound nets and salmon; three great books; new owners at Tom Morgan Rodsmiths; and Colorado's greenback cutty gets on the road to recovery

Tailwater Weekend

Montana's Lower Madison, in winter.

By Ryan Sparks

Tippets

So many striper seasons; rescue at sea; the promise (and reality) of winter steelheading; high-water pike fishing; one man's ode to a lost jacket; ditching work for some bobber-doggin'; client management in AK; and flyshop shit-talking.

Junior's water on the Delaware; steelheading Lake Erie; ode to the single-handed steelhead rod; life lessons on the Bonaventure; photo workshop on the Salmon; an angler's life, taken too soon; and fall is a bad time to break your foot

Redspread

When autumn comes to the marsh.

By Cole Harper

Passport

Picking Guatemala's Pocket—for sailfish.

By Brian Irwin

Bugs

Micro-caddis to the rescue.

By Miles Nolte

City Limits

Redbands can be an under-appreciated rainbow.
But not in Spokane, Washington.

Features

The Tugur Chum Eaters

What happens when a Russian steel magnate, a Polish spey-casting guru, and an American wild-fish defender board a Mi-8 chopper bound for the Russian Far East? Something big. In this case, the search for Siberian taimen large enough to snack on adult salmon.

Features

Shadow Grab

Summer steelhead have developed one of the most complex and varied life histories of all Pacific fish. We have learned so much, yet the most basic question remains: Why do they—or don't they—eat a fly?

Coho from an Alaskan beach, tossing and turning on the road, chasing largemouth with friends in California, chasing smallmouth with Jesse James in Minnesota, float-tubing San Diego Bay, single-issue voting, and carping in backwater Georgia

Features

The Kootenai River is hidden away in the boondocks of northwest Montana. But look closer at the trout and the scenery and Dave Blackburns lodge, and it doesnt seem so far.

By Myers Reece

Derailed

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau banned oil-tanker traffic on B.C.s north coast, lessening the threat of oil pipelines running along steelhead rivers. But plenty of other threats remain.

By Leslie Anthony, Steven Hawley, and Tom Bie

Minnesota Musky

Theres no toothy critters like Sota toothy critters. Our photographers in the field bring back a report to help you survive the winter.

By Lee Church and Corey Kruitbosch

Pancora Holiday

Catching a Patagonian brown or rainbow is like catching one in Montana or Colorado. Only its those two states circa 1915, not 2015. Youll also lose a week of January or February, while gaining a week of Southern Hemisphere sunshine—a trade well take.

By Tom Bie

Departments

Page Six Chix

Wintertime hat-trick: Musky, steelhead, and a Mongolian taimen.

Put-in

Arctic weather options for sourcing a level of quiet calm under falling snow.

Rises

Bushkill weekends, community connectedness, and a Deschutes River reply.

Departments

Page Six Chix

Two freshies, two salties

Put-in

The value of Wilderness (with a capital “W”)

Rises

On hatcheries, access, Yellowstone, and smallmouth

Scuddlebutt

A glossary for striper fishermen, Clyde meets a cop, an Olympic Peninsula fly shack, paddle-makers in Minnesota, more golf-course bass, a collaborative fish-art project, and if tarpon could text each other

Tippets

Ode to the Elwha, Gierach's coffee, a lost strain of striper fishermen, fake fly anglers, resilient brim in Texas, gangster carp in Jersey, nights in northern Michigan, and death of a dog (spoiler alert: it's sad.)